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Adams, John D.  “The Berea College Mission to the Mountains: Teacher Training, the Normal Department, and Rural Community Development.”  Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 110.1 (2012): 33-66. Print.

Alvic, Philis. “Berea College and Fireside Industries.” Weavers of the Southern Highlands. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. 35-55. Print.

Anderson, Dawn et al. Being and Becoming: College-Wide Implementation and Assessment Plan 1998-2002. Report, Berea: [Berea College], 1997.50 pp. Print.

---. Being and becoming: Berea College in the 21st century.  Report, Berea: [Berea College], 1996. 35-9, 55-8. 61 pp. Print.

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Baskin, Andrew. “Berea College and the Founding of Lincoln Institute.” History of Education in Southern Appalachia. Ed. John L. Bell. Cullowhee, N.C.: Western Carolina University Press, 1990. Print.

Best, Bill. The Appalachian Renaissance at Berea College 1944-1994. Berea, KY: Appalachian Imprints Publishing, 2009. Print.

---. “Remembering the First Appalachian Studies Conference, October 1970.”  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine. 27.1 (2011): 54-57. Print.  

---. “Torchlight: Thirty Years Later.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture. Ed. Sidney Saylor Farr. 25.3 (1997): 7-17. Print.

Bolin, John S. “William Morris and the Appalachian Craft Revival at Berea College.” Unpublished Manuscript, 1996. Print. [In Berea Special Collections & Archives]

Boyce, Steve et al. The Future of Berea College, 1987-2010: Report of the Berea College Long Range Planning Committee. Report, Berea, n.p., 1987. 79 pp. Print.

Boyd, Tom et al. Being and Becoming: Berea College in the 21st Century, The Strategic Plan for Berea College, Revised 2006. Rep. Berea, Ky.: [Berea College], 2006. 123 pp. Print.

Browner, Stephanie et al. Being and Becoming: Berea College in the 21st Century, The Strategic Plan for Berea College, Revised 2011. Rep. Berea, Ky.: [Berea College], 2011. 131 pp. Print.

Burnside, Jacqueline. Philanthropists and Politicians: A Sociological Profile of Berea College, 1855-1908. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1988. Print.

Drake, Richard B. Appalachian Volunteer Reader. Berea, Ky: [Council of Southern Mountains], 1966. Print. 

---. An Appalachian Reader, Vol. II. Berea, Ky: [Council of Southern Mountains], 1970. Print

---. “Berea’s Appalachian Commitment.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture. Ed. Sidney Saylor Farr. 26.3 (1998): 6-21. Print.

---. “John B. Stephenson: Four Chapters.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture. Ed. Sidney Saylor Farr. 23.1 (1995): 23-25. Print.

---. "The Struggle in Appalachian Studies." Appalachian Journal 9.2/3 (1982): 191-194. Print. 

Dykeman, Wilma. Prophet of Plenty: The First Ninety Years of W. D. Weatherford. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1966. Print.

Edwards, Grace Toney. “The Class of ’74: Appalachian Teachers’ Workshop, Berea College.” “A Special Issue on Appalachian Activism in Honor of Stephen L. Fisher.”  Appalachian Journal. Ed. Sandra L. Ballard.  34.2 (2007): 407-408. Print.

Frost, William G. For the Mountains: An Autobiography. New York, NY: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1937. Print.

---. “Our Contemporary Ancestors in the Southern Mountains.” The Atlantic Monthly March, 1899: 311-319. Print.

Green, Chris. “Evangelizing an Anglo Equality.” The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 17-39. Print.

Hayslette, Sandra Diane. “’Not at the Top, But Climbing’: Teaching and Learning about Appalachia and Identity at Berea College, 1920-1940.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. Print.

Hoffman, Carl. “Hands-on Training for Community Leadership” [Brushy Fork Leadership Development Program, outreach arm of Berea College].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission. 36 (2003): 32-36. Print.

Krehbiel, Lee Edward. “From Race to Region: Shifting Priorities at Berea College Under President William Goodell Frost, 1892-1912.”  Ph.D. dissertation: Indiana University, 1997. Print.

Mack, Dwayne.  “‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around’: Berea College’s Participation in the Selma to Montgomery March.” Ohio Valley History. 5.3 (2005): 43-62. Print.

Meisel, Wayne. “Transformation Colliding: Students, Community, and Campus Connections.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life Culture. Ed. Sidney Saylor Farr. 28.2 (1999): 35-43. Print.

Messinger, Penny. "Restoring the Woman Reformer: Helen Hastie Dingman and 'Mountain Work,' 1916-1950." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 37.3-4 (2010): 242-264. Print. 

Mitchell, Catherine C. and Joan C. Schnyder. “Public Relations for Appalachia: Berea’s Mountain Life and Work.” Journalism Quarterly. 66.4 (1989): 974-1049. Print.

Mountain Life and Work.  Published by or at Berea College from 1925 to 1940, in close coordination with The Council of Southern Mountain Workers, whose official “organ” it became in 1941.  For Berea’s stance on Appalachia in 1925, see Mountain Life and Work 1.1 (1925).  

Peck, Elisabeth S. and Emily Ann Smith. Berea’s First 125 Years, 1855-1980. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Print.

Roberts, Gerald et al., “Report of the Committee to Review the Appalachian Commitment.”  Rep.  Berea, KY: Berea College, 1989.  66 pp. Print.  

Sawyer, David.[1] “Developing Student Leaders for Appalachia.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life Culture. Ed. Sidney Saylor Farr. 28.2 (1999): 28-34. Print.

Shapiro, Henry D. Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness 1870-1920. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 1978. 45-46; 87; 119-120; 122-132; 208-209; 225-226. Print.

Shinn, Larry. “Continuity and Change in Appalachia.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture. Ed. Sidney Saylor Farr. 28.2 (1999): 7-11. Print.

Stephenson, John et al. Recommendations from the General Faculty and Report from the Committee to Review the Commitments to the Board of Trustees. Rep. Berea: n.p., 1993. 19 pp. Print.

Strategic Planning Committee. “Berea's Appalachian Commitment: A Regional Mission with Global Implications.”  2002.  RG 10, Committees, Projects, Reports: Strategic Planning Committee, Berea College Archives.  Print.  Also on Digital Berea.

Thompson, Deborah. Performing Community: The Place of Music, Race, and Gender in Producing Appalachian Space. PhD. Dissertation, University of Kentucky, 2012. Print.

Tucker, Bruce. “Imagining Appalachians: The Berea Workshop on the Urban Adjustment of Southern Appalachian Migrants.” Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration. Eds. Phillip Obermiller, Thomas Wagner, and Bruce Tucker. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 96-120. Print.

Webb, Althea. “Color Me Appalachian.” The Chronicle of Higher Education.  2 Oct. 2011. Retrieved from: http://chronicle.com/article/Color-Me-Appalachian/129174/.

Wilson, Shannon. Berea College: An Illustrated History. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. Print.

---. “Lincoln’s Sons and Daughters: Berea College, Lincoln Memorial University, and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia, 1866-1910.” Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays. Eds. Kenneth W. Noe and Shannon H. Wilson. Knoxville, TN.: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Print.

---. “A Little Journey to Harlan County: William J. Hutchins and the Harlan County Troubles, 1932.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian History and Culture. Ed. Sidney Saylor Farr. 26.2 (1998): 6-12. Print.

---. “Window on the Mountains: Berea’s Appalachia, 1870-1930.” Filson Club History Quarterly 64.3 (1990): 384-400. Print.


[1] Director of Students for Appalachia at Berea College ~1987-1997